05-10-2020 By SJA Jafri KARBALA/ KARACHI: Tens of thousands of worshippers have been flooding into Iraq’s holy city of Karbala despite the COVID-19 pandemic for the pilgrimage of Arbaeen, one of the world’s biggest religious gatherings. Arbaeen marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh century martyrdom …
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05-10-2020 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, who is in hospital with COVID-19, was driven outside the facility on Sunday so he could wave to a group of supporters on the street in a move critics derided as a dangerous political stunt. Video showed Trump, wearing a black mask, waving from …
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04-10-2020 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian film star Akshay Kumar on Saturday admitted there is a drug “problem” within Bollywood, as a narcotics probe into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput intensifies. Movie-obsessed India has been gripped by the saga around the death of Rajput, who was found dead …
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04-10-2020 CAIRO: Archaeologists in Egypt have announced the discovery of 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins that were buried more than 2,500 years ago. Opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media on Saturday, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in …
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04-10-2020 WASHINGTON: Police cordoned off the area near Walter Reed Hospital – where US President Donald Trump is under treatment after he contracted the novel coronavirus— after spotting an abandoned “suspicious package”. As per details from the US media, a tactical unit was notified about the backpack following which the team …
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04-10-2020 MECCA/ MEDINA/ RIYADH: A limited number of people circled Islam’s holiest site in Mecca on Sunday after Saudi Arabia lifted coronavirus restrictions that had been in place for months. The kingdom took the rare step of suspending the Umrah, the smaller pilgrimage that draws millions all year round from …
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04-10-2020 JERUSALEM: Protest, now on its 15th week, keeps pressure on prime minister to quit over alleged corruption and his handling of pandemic. Thousands of Israelis have protested across the country for the 15th week in a row, flouting a new law meant to curb anti-government demonstrations during a coronavirus …
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04-10-2020 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the international community to mount pressure on the Israeli regime “to promptly accede to the NPT and destroy its nuclear arsenal”. “The international community must compel Israel—which has aggression in its very DNA—to promptly accede to the NPT and destroy …
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04-10-2020 STEPANAKERT: Fierce clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijan forces continued on Saturday with the main city of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region coming under heavy shelling. The leader of the breakaway province said he was heading to the front and that the “final battle” for the region had begun, seven days …
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03-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least 13 people have been killed and more than 30 others wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted a government building in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, officials said, adding that the death toll could rise. “The car …
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